Damn you Carl Sagan, you doomed us all.
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Carl Sagan frequently spoke out against the horrors of nuclear war.
Who knew it was because he wanted the world to be habitable for when the aliens invaded?
So you're saying he was preserving us as a food source! Millions of light years of travel ought to make a fella hungry. What will they eat if we are dead?
Sounds more like he was preserving us as a fuck source. Aliens must be pretty horny. And way into butt stuff.
Hahaha! Why can't it be both? Copulating with livestock has been a human passtime for millennia after all.
Good point. And food replicators just can't reproduce accurately the smell and taste of a really well-cooked human.
But was the mix tape fire 🔥?
Now that I think about it, why did they suppose that other intelligent life forms (if there are any near us at all) could "read" the data in vynil records?
Never mind, they put a bunch of diagrams on the cover to explain how to play it. Although it could still not work, because we have no idea if other intelligent life forms are capable of reading diagrams.
The whole thing was a publicity stunt. The chances of an alien civilization ever finding the Voyager probe are so close to zero as hardly matters.
I'm not criticizing it. Sometimes publicity stunts are important. It got people interested in the Voyager program and, hopefully, other space science programs as well.
So important, they did a whole lot of science on the way and captured (and still do nearly 50yrs later) people's imagination and sense of wonder.
I'm sorely disappointed that no death metal was included on the Golden Record.
I mean, death metal wasn't invented yet, but I'm still allowed to be disappointed.
We could do Pink Floyd or Grateful Dead at least. Add some years and Celtic Frost is also on menu. Beatles are here and availiable by default. I don't know if anyone caught that golden freesbie, but they sure thought we are boring.
Being serious for a minute, Western music was already over-represented on the Golden Record.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/
Honestly, I'm surprised it's that diverse knowing when it was launched. But you are on point.
Space porn
lol, so true
Corti gotta make profit somehow